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Deskar The bits for the bit workers Posts: 109 Filters: 30	Greetings, I have two ideas to suggest for the next version. I think it has already been discussed the extreme need of counting with more mathematical flexibility. The curve formulas could be input by the user, that would be fantastic and would improve FF's features in a great way. Another characteristic that would empower the program would be a cellular automata component. The ability to create patterns and modify components would become terribly big. Cellular automata are pretty fast to compute and their aesthetics are both varied and eye-catching. They're used in several common filters, Blur being one of them and High Pass as well, if I'm not mistaken. It would be great if you could add the possibility to create custom cellular automata building rules. Both suggestions have a rather simple mathematical complexity and would increase the program's potential way beyond other filter-maker programs. New users could avoid complications directly by not using the most complex characteristics of these new components. Advanced users would be in heaven. Here are some links about cellular automata: Examples of the graphic potentiality of CA. http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker...mples.html Software to generate the game of life (made with CA) http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/Life32.html Articles about the subject , by Stephen Wolfram (genius of geniuses). http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publica...ticles/ca/ "A New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram. Free online book that collects ten years of works with CA. http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html Various links http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/2DT...rAutomata/ http://images.google.com.ar/images?sv...C3%A1genes To bit or not to bit
	Posted: August 31, 2007 1:43 am	Details E-Mail
Crapadilla lvl 52 Filter Weaver and Official "Filter Forge Seer" Posts: 4365 Filters: 65	Cool! +1 --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid redundant feature requests!" ;)
	Posted: August 31, 2007 9:48 am	Details E-Mail
StevieJ Designer/Artist Posts: 11264 Filters: 163	yeah, that is cool.... Steve "Buzzards gotta eat...same as worms..." - Clint :)
	Posted: August 31, 2007 4:49 pm	Details E-Mail
Kraellin Kraellin Posts: 12749 Filters: 99	i agree it's cool. i remember this from WAY back in my computing days, but i'm at a loss here. how would you translate or implement this concept as something usable in FF? If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up! Craig
	Posted: August 31, 2007 6:54 pm	Details E-Mail
Crapadilla lvl 52 Filter Weaver and Official "Filter Forge Seer" Posts: 4365 Filters: 65	This is quite impressive... --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid redundant feature requests!" ;)
	Posted: September 1, 2007 5:51 am	Details E-Mail
Deskar The bits for the bit workers Posts: 109 Filters: 30	Left, natural shell. Right, synthetic shell. In the middle, only awe. To bit or not to bit
	Posted: September 1, 2007 6:15 am	Details E-Mail
Deskar The bits for the bit workers Posts: 109 Filters: 30	Chitah and Leopard patterns generated by chemical reaction-difusion cascade type simulation. Bottom row was generated from top row. To bit or not to bit
	Posted: September 1, 2007 6:47 am	Details E-Mail
Deskar The bits for the bit workers Posts: 109 Filters: 30	Giraffe pattern. Right graphic was made by processing the left graphic with a line generator. To bit or not to bit
	Posted: September 1, 2007 6:52 am	Details E-Mail
Deskar The bits for the bit workers Posts: 109 Filters: 30	Diffusion-limited aggregation is a type of Automata Cellular. Lightning bolts, rivers, veins, electrophoretic process... http://fd.alife.co.uk/dla/ To bit or not to bit
	Posted: September 1, 2007 7:34 am	Details E-Mail
Deskar The bits for the bit workers Posts: 109 Filters: 30	Th image of the Giraffe pattern may be was made with voronoi... Its cool too. To bit or not to bit
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Deskar The bits for the bit workers Posts: 109 Filters: 30	Fractal Drainage Patterns. A lot of fractals were generated by CA. To bit or not to bit
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Deskar The bits for the bit workers Posts: 109 Filters: 30	Fractal Drainage Patterns. To bit or not to bit
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Deskar The bits for the bit workers Posts: 109 Filters: 30	More Fractal Drainage Patterns. To bit or not to bit
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Deskar The bits for the bit workers Posts: 109 Filters: 30	More Fractal Drainage Patterns. Generated online and they render very fast. http://fd.alife.co.uk/model/ To bit or not to bit
	Posted: September 1, 2007 7:56 am	Details E-Mail
Deskar The bits for the bit workers Posts: 109 Filters: 30	More useful links. http://cell-auto.com/ http://cafaq.com/soft/index.php http://axxon.com.ar/zap/278/c-Zapping0278.htm (in spanish but with a lot of images) Deskar (Diego) To bit or not to bit
	Posted: September 1, 2007 7:58 am	Details E-Mail
Kraellin Kraellin Posts: 12749 Filters: 99	ok, i think i get where you're going with this for FF...at least some of it. man, animate this in FF and whoa! If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up! Craig
	Posted: September 1, 2007 10:40 am	Details E-Mail
Deskar The bits for the bit workers Posts: 109 Filters: 30	I wonder if Vladimir or someone from the staff is reading this. What do they think? Deskar To bit or not to bit
	Posted: September 3, 2007 9:24 am	Details E-Mail
onyXMaster Filter Forge, Inc. Posts: 350	I'm not Vladimir, but I think I will suffice, since there was time when I read some Conway's books. CAs operate with discrete cells, performing simulation step-by-step (generations in terms of "The Game of Life"). Filter Forge operates with function samples only. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule (bitmap-based components like Blur), so I do not rule out the possibility of emulating small-generation CAs, but I seriously doubt that CAs will make it into next major versions of Filter Forge.
	Posted: September 3, 2007 10:14 am	Details E-Mail